The Beginning

"Tower of Gift or people called by TOG is a tower that isn't manmade. The tower appeared in the world in the year 2020."

"At the time many places were destroyed by the monster that came out of the tower. At that time military forces of every country tried to fight back the monster but the gun didn't work well to the monster and they got massacred instead."

"Only the Users could fight back against the monster, at those times there are several people who could fight back with physical force to the monster."

"the normal people could kill the monster because they are talented. not many people could do that but after they killed the monster they become Users. Those people could also be called..."

"Student number 8, Aku Manoyami, tell the answer"

Inside the classroom when the teacher called his name all of a sudden Aku became surprised because he didn't prepare for it.

He is supposed to know the answer, but his memory isn't running normally and makes him forget the answer.

"Psst!"

He could hear something from beside, when he looked at the neighbor's desk, he can see a girl with her board in his sight.

The word written on the board is the answer which is the answer to the question that has been asked by the teacher.

When he saw the word he also remember it and said the word to the teacher

"Firstborn User"

"Student number 8, correct answer. After the firstborn User came to, the people in the world have a hope to fight back against...."

Aku grateful to his neighbor, whisper the word to her.

"Thank you, Chloe. I know the answer but I forgot because he asked it all of the sudden"

The neighbor turned his head in his direction, this neighbor of his is a girl by the name of Chloe Bellanusa.

"Hmm..?"

"...W-what?"

"Nothing, nothing at all"

The first time he met her is at the entrance exam of this school. The fourth high school of Zones Z 3 months ago.

That meeting is like a meeting in the movies he watched before. It unlikely happened but it does. Maybe because of that he and Chloe are close to each other.

Aku and Chloe are fans of movies. even though their genre of movies is different, it is alright in this year of 2120.

only 3 months pass by, but Aku and Chloe's relationship becomes closer each day.

"In the first place isn't that is your fault made me off guard and didn't pay attention to the teacher?"

Aku looked at Chloe once more, before the teacher asked him, Chloe started to talk to him about something that isn't important.

"Hmmm? is that so?"

Chloe answered with only a smile

Aku became shocked, a vein almost appeared on his forehead because of the annoying answer of Chloe.

'She started talking to me while knowing it is my turn to answer the teacher's question, is it only my imagination that she is calculating it?'

The teacher is known by the students for his number order questions. The teacher's name is Teacher Hu.

Teacher Hu always asks questions from student number 1 until the end. there are 40 people in the classroom.

His student number in the class is 8 meanwhile Chloe's number is 16.

"Student number 14, Chocho Namanama answer the question!"

The girl that sits in 2 seats in front of Chloe stands up, it seems she didn't know the answer or forgot it like him.

"Yes, err, the answer is, err, is it.."

Teacher Hu has asked the number 14, it is almost time for Chloe time to answer.

It is his chance to get back to Chloe by disturbing her so she wouldn't hear the teacher's question.

"Say, Chloe"

He turned his head to his neighbor Chloe while thinking about what will he say to her he whispered to her. Chloe take his bait and replied his whisper with a whisper too.

"What is it, loser?"

Chloe said with a grin, he knows she is just joking but for some reason, it irks him.

He didn't matter it much because he thinking about the big plot of a plan rather than the short one.

"Please don't joke like that, it hurt me you know."

"Hahaha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

He didn't know anymore if she is joking or not. rather than that next step is more important.

"say, Chloe, Why is your hair white?"

The last time he asked about her hair color she become really mad. Her hair was silver, but today when he sees her hair it is a little bit the color of white compared to silver.

"hey, so you do notice it. What do you think about it?"

badump

'no, why my heart suddenly beating faster, remember that Chloe is my first friend. Nothing else, I can't have this kind of thought'

'She is a gorgeous type of woman. With her previous silver long straight hair become white short straight hair. of course I would notice it'

'And even more, I heard about it this morning on the shoe rack. Her friend talked about it to her. I think it is better to tell her the truth as her friend here, and also it is not good to lie as my grandfather said.'

"It is beautiful, it more beautiful compare to the previous one"

"!...."

When he replies to her, she becomes silent. She didn't continue and instead when he see in her direction she is twirling her hair with her hand.

'eh, did I say something weird? It is normal to say that right?'

"Forge-"

He wanted to clear the misunderstanding he created, but before he could Teacher Hu called her number to answer the question

"Student number 16, Chloe Bellanusa answer the question!"

Chloe stands up and is still silent. He thought he got back to her joke before but he feels bad instead. He wanted to help but he didn't pay attention too so he doesn't know the question.

But different from what he thought, Chloe answered Teacher Hu's question perfectly.

"There are 26 Zones. From Zones A to Zone Z in alphabet order"

"Student number 16, correct answer. There are 26 Zones in this world..."

"Huh, h-how can you hear the question?"

Chloe back to sit in her seat. She handwaves her hair in the area around her ear while replying to him.

"Because I am paying attention unlike you Aku"

She answer Aku's doubt, Aku could only shake his head because his plan is failing.

"At least Chloe didn't get shouted at by the teacher, it doesn't matter if I lose today's match"

Aku thought he only thinking about it but blurted it out for unknown reasons.

This word get caught by his neighbor Chloe too, she turned her head to the direction of opposite Aku's seat.

Her face is blushing red, it doesn't clear If she is sick or blushed because of the Aku word.

with a low voice, she whisper some words that only she could hear.

"Two times Critical Strike is unfair"

Her face pouted, to hide her red face from Aku sight, but Aku could only see her pouted face from his seat.

'Eh, she is pouting, did I do something wrong again?'

This is the story of two friends that have matches every school day. The girl is hiding something from the boy and so does the boy.

In front of Aku, there is a board like a digital board Chloe used to tell him the answer before.

On the board there are only 3 word, [Profile], [Points], [Market]. if he pressed one of the words then it will be changed.

He pressed at the [Points] word. The words on the board change,

[Points : 0 (11.000/month)]

He pressed again and the screen back to the three words before. this time he pressed at the word [Market].

'Market still empty, how many points do I need to buy something except for Level up Scroll'

Level up Scroll is one of the only things he could buy from the [Market], it makes him leveled up to the next level just like he does today morning.

after checking at it, now is the time for [Profile]. When he pressed at it the Board changed.

[Name: Aku Manoyami, Power Value: 110, Lv: 11, Inventory: Multiply Two Times Item Scroll (7 more uses)]

Nothing changes from the board he checked in the morning. Usually, the user will get missions they could do to become strong.

On the Hunter forum, many Users are telling their stories about the system but not even one he search is the same as his system currently.

The system he has is very passive, not even once it gives him a mission and it only works once every month.

It make him glad because he didn't want to work too hard. His grandparents from his father's side have a bad visual of the system.

Because they experienced the system made his father do something that they didn't want him to do.

"Hey, Aku!"

He heard Chloe's voice from his side, the sound is very close and he could hear it.

it turn out the class is over when he focused on the system board. He swipes the system board and makes it disappear from his sight.

Luckily the system board could only be seen by its User. Other Users could only know the Users name, but Users could unhide their power value for other users to see.

"What's happening?" Aku, ask Chloe because after he answered Teacher Hu's question other than when Chloe asked he didn't pay attention to it.

"What do you mean by what's happening? it's time to change class. Let's go!"

"Ah, Yes. Let's we go"

Sometimes he forgot about something Chloe will make him remember, it is the first time he felt good to have a good friend that he didn't have before.

'I will always be good to Chloe, even though she walks through the dark path'

'well, that's wouldn't happen though'

Aku steps up to follow Chloe's foot, as they are on the side of each other. They start talking about the usual thing and laughed.

From Chloe's Shadow, the shadow of Chloe starts to smile even though Chloe isn't smiling.

Aku didn't see the unusual Shadow's behavior but the thing it shadow didn't know is from their behind, someone saw everything.